Carpenter&#39;s tool.



B. A. MILLER. CARPENTERS TOOL-1 APPLICATION FILED lAN- I5, 1913-Patented June 15, 1915.

MAM ay 1H5 NORRIS PETERS CO. PHOTO-LITHQ, WASHINGTON, D1 C.

BENJAMIN A. MILLER, OF WEST HAZLE'ION, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARPENTERS TOOL.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN A. MILLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at West Hazleton, in the county of Luzerne, State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCarpenters Tools; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to carpenters tools and particularly to a toolfor laying out weather boards.

The object of the invention resides in the provision of a tool of thecharacter named through the instrumentality of which all the saw linesnecessary to the proper shaping of a weather board may be laid outthereon without the necessity of removing the tool fiiorg the boardafter it has been once app 1e With the above and other objects in viewthe invention consists in the details of construction and in thearrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fullydescribed and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings wherein like characters of referenoe denotecorresponding parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is aperspective view of a tool constructed in accordance with the invention,and Fig. 2 a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings the tool is shown as comprising a base member10 which is preferably rectangular in shape. Secured to the base member10 at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the latter are spacedstrips 11 and 12 and slidably mounted between said strips 11 and 12 is agage bar 13. Connecting the strips 11 and 12 within the limits of thebase 10 is a bridge plate 14 in which is mounted a binding screw 15adapted to impinge against the gage bar 13 and lock the latter in adesired adjustment.

In the use of the tool the gage bar 13 is Specification of LettersPatent. AppIication filed January 15, 1913. Serial No. 742,166.

Patented June 15, 1915.

adjusted so that the end thereof against which the marking pencil is tobe disposed will be positioned the proper distance from the adjacentedge of the body 10, such distance being the width face the weatherboard is to have when in place. The tool is then applied to the boardwith one long edge of the body 10 disposed against one long edge of theweather board. A line is then drawn along one edge of the strip 11 tosquare the end of the board and the marking pencil then positionedagainst the proper end of the gage bar 13. The tool is then movedlongitudinally of the weather board with the body 10 maintained inengagement with the longitudinal edge of said board. The line thustraced by the marking pencil will give the desired'width face the boardis to show. In the event of knots being present in theboard it is onlynecessary to cease moving the tool at a point adjacent the knot and thendraw a line along the edge of the strip 11. Movement of the tool is thencontinued until it has passed over the knot and then another line isdrawn along the edge of the strip 11. The markingpencil is then returnedto its position at the proper end of the gage bar and the movement'ofthe tool continued until another knot is approached when the sameoperation is resorted to. In this manner the proper saw lines may belaid out over the full board without removing the tool therefrom afterit is once applied.

What I claim is A carpenters tool comprising a rectangular body portion,spaced strips secured to one side of the body transversely thereof andat right angles thereto, the terminal portions of said strips extendingbeyond respective longitudinal edges of the body, a gage bar slidablebetween said strips and having one end disposed inwardly of thecorresponding ends of the strips when operatively adjusted, and meansfor locking said gage bar in different adjustments.

In testimony whereof, I affiX my signature, in the presence of twowitnesses.

BENJAMIN A. MILLER.

Witnesses:

J OHN T. N ULTY, FRANK J. CANNON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

